Kukri Hills () is a prominent east-west trending

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, about long and over high, forming the divide between

Ferrar Glacier __NOTOC__ Ferrar Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica. It is about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land west of the Royal Society Range to New Harbour in McMurdo Sound. The glacier makes a right (east) turn northeast of Knobhead, where ...

on the south and

Taylor Glacier __NOTOC__ The Taylor Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills, south of the Asgard Range. The middle part of the glacier is bounded on ...

and

Taylor Valley Taylor Valley is the southernmost of the three large McMurdo Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . The valley extends from Taylor Glacier in the west to McMurdo So ...

on the north, in

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. The hills were discovered by the

Discovery Expedition The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–184 ...

(1901–04) and probably so named because its shape resembles that of the

Kukri The kukri () or khukuri ( ne, खुकुरी, ) is a type of machete with a distinct recurve in its blade. It serves multiple purposes as a melee weapon and also as a regular cutting tool throughout most of South Asia. The ''kukri'', ''khuk ...

, a Gurkha knife.

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* Mount Barnes () is a

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, , surmounting the west-central side of New Harbour and marking the east end of the Kukri Hills. Discovered by the ''Discovery'' expedition, 1901–04, under Scott, and named New Harbour Heights. It was renamed Mount Barnes after a Canadian ice physicist by Scott's second expedition, the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13. * Mount Brearley () is a sharp peak, , which is the westernmost summit of the Kukri Hills. Named by the Western Journey Party, led by

Thomas Griffith Taylor Thomas Griffith "Grif" Taylor (1 December 1880 – 5 November 1963) was an English-born geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. He was a survivor of Captain Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica (1910–1913). Taylor was a se ...

, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13. * Rahi Peak () is a prominent

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rising to between the head of

Moa Glacier Moa Glacier () is a valley glacier between Marr Glacier and Goldman Glacier in the Kukri Hills of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It flows north into Taylor Valley but terminates midway down the south wall of the valley. The glacier was named by the Ne ...

and Goldman Glacier. The word "rahi" is

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in origin, meaning "big". The name was applied by the

New Zealand Geographic Board The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) was established by the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946, which has since been replaced by the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008. Althoug ...

(NZGB) in 1998. * Sentinel Peak () is a conspicuous, pointed peak over , standing at the north side of

and forming the highest point in the south-central part of the Kukri Hills. Discovered and named by the ''Discovery'' expedition 1901–04 under Scott.

Other features

* Young Hill () is an ice-free hill about high, northeast of

Hallam Peak Hallam Peak () is a distinctive rock peak in the Kukri Hills of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peak rises to between the heads of Von Guerard Glacier and Aiken Glacier and provides an unobstructed view of the Lake Fryxell locality of Taylor Valle ...

. It was named by the

(NZGB) in 1998 for

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ornithologist Euan C. Young, whose Antarctic research spanned 30 years, beginning in the 1959-60 field season. * Eyeglass Cirque is a

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east of

South America Glacier Kukri Hills () is a prominent east-west trending range, about long and over high, forming the divide between Ferrar Glacier on the south and Taylor Glacier and Taylor Valley on the north, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The hills were discovered ...

on the southern cliffs of the Kukri Hills,

. The name is one of a group in the area associated with

surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...

applied in 1993 by the

; "eyeglass" refers to the eyepiece of a surveying

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Mountains of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub

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Other features

See also

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